Table 3.
Change in knowledge: issues related to ethnicity
| Factual knowledge statements | Students responding correctly (%) |
Change in % correct/baseline |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First survey | Second survey | First survey | Second survey | p valuea | |
| African-American students | Control (n=38) | Intervention (n=45) | |||
| Almost one-half of the persons waiting for organ transplants in the U.S. are minorities. (T) | 39.5 | 31.6 | 37.8 | 60.0 | 0.004 |
| African-Americans wait longer for kidney transplants than Caucasian/Whites. (T) | 57.9 | 44.7 | 40.0 | 73.3 | 0.001 |
| Asians wait longer for kidney transplants than Caucasians/Whites. (T) | 36.8 | 34.2 | 17.8 | 48.9 | <0.005 |
| Most organs received by people of color are donated by Caucasian donors. (T) | 7.9 | 18.4 | 13.3 | 53.3 | <0.01 |
| Asian-American students | Control (n=26) | Intervention (n=30) | |||
| Almost one-half of the persons waiting for organ transplants in the U.S. are minorities. (T) | 23.1 | 38.5 | 26.7 | 70.0 | 0.02 |
| African-Americans wait longer for kidney transplants than Caucasian/Whites. (T) | 26.9 | 23.1 | 26.7 | 66.7 | 0.002 |
| Asians wait longer for kidney transplants than Caucasians/Whites. (T) | 19.2 | 23.1 | 23.3 | 50.0 | 0.08 |
| Most organs received by people of color are donated by Caucasian donors. (T) | 3.9 | 11.5 | 16.7 | 53.3 | 0.02 |
| European-American (only) students | Control (n=23) | Intervention (n=15) | |||
| Almost one-half of the persons waiting for organ transplants in the U.S. are minorities. (T) | 47.8 | 39.1 | 33.3 | 86.7 | <0.001 |
| African-Americans wait longer for kidney transplants than Caucasian/Whites. (T) | 34.8 | 39.1 | 33.3 | 80.0 | 0.003 |
| Asians wait longer for kidney transplants than Caucasians/Whites. (T) | 17.4 | 17.4 | 33.3 | 60.0 | 0.02 |
| Most organs received by people of color are donated by Caucasian donors. (T) | 13.0 | 17.4 | 20 | 53.3 | 0.05 |
a
p value compares the mean change in percent correct responses divided by the baseline percent correct responses for that item between intervention and control groups (two-tailed t-test).